There existed major differences between these states over the authority of the government to halt and illegalize slavery. In the year 1860, presidential elections were in the U.S. The then presidential candidate of the Republican Party was completely against slavery in the U.S. On the other hand, the republicans were totally against the abolition and banning of slave trade in the U.S. Slaves were a contentious issue due to divided interests between them due to the role they played in the economies of the states that depended on the contribution of slave labor (James & Michael, 25). .
Luckily or unluckily, Lincoln won the 1860 elections. The win meant that the agenda of abolishing slave trade in the U.S would be an automatic one but it did not come so easy, there was a battle ahead after Lincoln's win that had to pay the cost for the anti-slavery campaign, the civil war. Before Lincoln was inaugurated as the next president of the U.S, the seven states of the south seceded to form what they referred to as the Confederate States of America. Other states from the north formed what they termed as union states. This move was termed as unconstitutional and inappropriate by both the Republicans and the Democrats. There were calls to end the recession but these states paid a deaf ear to the calls to avoid receding and even went further to seizure some forts of the federal governments (Guezlo, 61).
The next course of action that followed after calls to stop the recession failed was a conference between the south and the southern states. However, the peace conference did not take place. Maybe if it would have taken place, the contentious issues would have been handled and an amicable solution reached at by the parties. The confederate states formed by the southern states ignored to conference. Since the two attempts to agree on the contentious issue of slavery between the southern and the northern states had failed to take place, the next course of action that was to be taken was to go to war, the most uncivilized way to settle contentious issues between parties (James & Michael, 47).
